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Romance Novel Reviews, Author Interviews, Commentary
23 Apr 2012 
Review: Claiming Colleen by Beth Kery
Claiming Colleen
Format Read: e-ARC provided courtesy of Author for Review
Length: 218 Pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: Home To Harbor Town Book III
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Publisher: Harlequin Special Edition
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, Kindle, Nook
Purchasing Info: Publisher, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-A-Milliion, Powell’s,
Interview with Amanda Stevens + Giveaway goodness!
Happy Monday, book lovers! I’m beyond excited to say that we have author Amanda Stevens here at BLI today! She stops by to answer some of our burning questions about her paranormal/ mystery/ romance hybrid series, The Graveyard Queen. She also discusses some of the influences that go into her writing, as well as her take on those things that go bump in the night. You don’t want to miss this one (and worry not; no spoilers here!). Please give her a very warm BLI welcome.
Alisha: So happy to have you at BLI today, Amanda! First off: How would you describe Amelia and her world….Twitter style (140 characters or less)? ^_^
Amanda: Dark, lush, dreamy and Southern. 😉
Your protagonist, Amelia, is quite complex in her background, her abilities, her motivations, and her desires. What aspects about her first called to you? Was she originally conceived as she is now? Did …
Sunday Cravings
Hello Book Lovers all over the world!!! It’s Sunday, so you all know it’s this time of week we gather and drool over all the new releases of the week to come 🙂 And this week, believe me when I tell you there are a lot of books worthy to crave. At least the way I see it! There are so many releases we can easily make a Sunday Cravings special edition for each one of us to squize into just one post all the books we want. Yeah, there are that many books scheduled for release this week 😛
So, let’s start!
Stella and Lea: Darkest Caress by Kaylea Cross
Two-hundred-year-old Daegan Blackwell is one of the last remaining Empowered, an ancient magical race. Daegan’s duty is to lead and protect his remaining Brethren in the coming war foretold by prophecy. The last thing he expects is to meet the …
The Quick Winner Post
Hey Everyone!
The week was busy with work (I even had to work on Saturday ugh) but thankfully next week will whoosh by equally fast, because come Friday I’ll fly away to spend 4.5 days with my family and hopefully then I’ll be able to recharge my batteries and sleep and read!! So I’ll be charging my Kindle and taking all those books I have yearned to read the past couple of weeks (like Deep Dark Secret by Sierra Dean, Somebody to Love by Kristan Higgins and My Wicked Gladiators by Lauren Hawkeye and many more!).
Today I have only 1 winner to announce (I know, we haven’t had such a quiet week for a long time), but no worries, there are 5 giveaways going on, so next week there will be lots of winners, enter before it’s too late!
And now, let’s …
The International Giveaways Café (40)
Hello all and welcome to the rainy day version of the café (at least it’s raining where I am). I’ve seen mention on Twitter over the last week of a readathon scheduled for today. If you are participating, I wish you the best of luck! I’ve personally not been able to get involved in readathons in the past but would love to. What do you all think about a day of undisturbed, unadulterated reading?
On to the bookish giveaway portion of our day now: Remember to let us know if you’ve won anything recently; the Book Lovers would love to hear! At Book Lovers Inc., it’s our pleasure to share the bookish love! Good luck to everyone and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Here’s the fine print for entering your link:
Guidelines:
If you have a giveaway you would like to share with our other readers, …
Around the Bookish World: Week-In-Review
Welcome to this week’s news post and we got more news on Amazon acquiring the backlist titles by Ian Flemming’s Bond books, Kobo stepping up their game and more book and author news!
Amazon announced they closed a deal to publish the backlist James Bond titles by Ian Flemming in the US. They reached an agreement to release ebook and print editions over a ten year period – the deal also includes his non-fiction books and writings. Vintage will also be issuing the James Bond books outside the US, and other territories in the English language – think this is pretty savvy especially with the new James Bond movie coming up.
Kobo has stated that they are planning to invest more into a self publishing similar to the Pubit and Amazon’s self publishing schemes, they also plan to move into twelve more territories offering their ebooks and site into Europe. They also …
Review: Silver-Tongued Devil by Sabina Kane
Format Read:Paperback copy purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages:405 pages
Release Date:January 5th 2012
Publisher:Orbit
Series: Sabina Kane Book 4
Formats Available: Paperback, Kindle Edition, e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Book Depository
Book Blurb:
Now that the threat of war has passed, Sabina Kane is ready to focus on the future. Her relationship with Adam Lazarus is getting stronger and she’s helping her sister, Maisie, overcome the trauma of her captivity in New Orleans. Even Giguhl is managing to stay out of trouble thanks to the arrival of Pussy Willow and his new roller derby team. But as much as Sabina wants to feel hopeful about the future, part of her doesn’t trust that peace is possible.
Her suspicions are confirmed when a string of sadistic murders threaten to stall treaty negotiations between the mages and the vampires. Sabina pitches in to find the killer, but her investigation soon …
Review: Caught in the Act by Jill Sorenson
Format read: ebook provided by publisher through netgalley
Genre: romantic suspense
Release Date: March 27th, 2012
Number of pages: 400 pages
Publisher: Bantam
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US)
Book Blurb:
Some desires are too dangerous to embrace.
As the owner of a flourishing Latin American crafts boutique, Karina Strauss should be basking in her success. Instead she’s worried about her troubled sister, the girlfriend—and prisoner—of drug lord Carlos Moreno. Kari wants no part of that life, but when she helps a friend cross into the United States illegally, two men on opposite sides of the law take notice: Moreno and Adam Cortez, the handsome border protection officer who lets Kari off the hook. It’s not just Kari’s tantalizing flash of skin that catches Adam’s attention—her drug cartel connections bring back the demons of his past.
Moreno demands that Kari smuggle a package for him …
ARC Review: The MineFields by Steven C. Eisner
Format read: hardcover from publicist
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Number of Pages: 311
Genre: business fiction, autobiographical fiction
Publisher: When Words Count Press, LLC
Formats Available: hardcover, ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon , Barnes & Noble,
Blurb:
From an early age, Sam Spiegel single-mindedly pursued an entrepreneurial path that prepared him to transform a small-time ad agency into a regional powerhouse with national ambitions. A couple decades later, Sam had achieved almost everything he ever dreamed possible as the ad agency’s rainmaker, fountainhead, and unflappable pursuer of success. One final goal remained: To consolidate his gains by attracting an international advertising conglomerate and cash out. That’s when the nation is hit with the most unthinkable tragedy, and Sam begins to take stock of his own life, finding that he is growing weary of the relentless hunt. Unsatisfied in his marriage and embroiled in a mind-boggling professional crisis, everything Sam had …
Romance and Me: Is it the money? – The Appeal of the Billionaire Hero
Hey Everyone!
It has come to our attention (thanks Amanda for pointing it out) that lately there has been a real billionaire hero boom in romance novels. No, of course I’m not saying this is something new, wealthy, obscenely rich, exotic heroes were always à la mode for category romances, it’s only that in the past couple of weeks we have read novel after novel featuring one of them (like Weekend Agreement, The Marriage Bargain, Blackmailed by the Italian Billionaire just to name a few). So we wondered what is it about rich heroes that makes them such a popular choice?
Nina Croft author of Blackmailed by the Italian Billionaire even asked readers for their opinion and here are some of their answers:
Gaby: I think it’s because usually money gives a man power, and women don’t like powerless …
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